Palestine - COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey in Palestine 2020

Business-COVID
Reference ID PSE-PCBS-COVB-2020-V1.0
Year 2020
Country Palestine
Producer(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics - State of Palestine
Sponsor(s) Palestine - PSE - financial
The Representative Office of Norway - NOR - financial
German development agency - GIZ - financial
World Bank - WB - financial
Collection(s)
Impact of COVID Pandemic - Business
Created on
Nov 29, 2021
Last modified
Nov 29, 2021
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Documentation

Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports that describe the survey process and the key results for this study.
Questionnaires
COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey in Palestine 2020,Questionnaire
pdf   1.26 MB

Author(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Date 2021-09-12T09:20
Country Palestine
Language Arabic
Contributor(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Publisher(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Description The survey's questionnaire was designed to achieve the objectives of this study. The questionnaire included essential variables required to study the impacts of COVID-19 on small, medium and large institutions in the West Bank and Gaza. It was oriented by joint efforts between PCBS team and the World Bank team and cooperation with GIZ and international institutions adaptation to the Palestinian situation.
Table of contents ·The questionnaire includes questions on the following dimensions:
1.Screener Information.
2.Control Information.
3.General Information.
4.Number of employed persons.
5.COVID-19 impact on institutions (on employment, sales, raw materials.
6.Dealing with financial problems.
7.Expectation and uncertainty.
8.Mechanism for dealing with financial problems in institutions.
9.Required interventions (policies).
Baseline of economic indicators
Download Questionnaire En.pdf
Reports
COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey in Palestine 2020 Report
pdf

Author(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Date 2021-09-12
Country Palestine
Language Arabic
Contributor(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Publisher(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Description The world is witnessing rapid changes resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), where it is affecting all aspects of life; it is quite obvious that such effects have negatively impacted the economic, social, environmental and health conditions. This critical situation has imposed tough challenges against the Palestinian economy that would require observation, following up and monitoring the Palestinian institutions' economic conditions during the pandemic in order to measure the size of changes that have occurred on those institutions ' economic conditions, as well as being comparable with normal and exceptional conditions. To that end, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) took the responsibility of implementing the COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey, as well as providing necessary data to meet the needs of policy and decision makers from both the private and public sectors, in addition to civil society and international institutions in a manner that contributes to developing programs and interventions that can mitigate the impacts and consequences of this pandemic.

The aim of the COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey, 2020 is to assess the dynamics of the impacts of COVID-19 on small, medium and large institutions in Palestine. Despite the closure of borders around the world and the aggressive containment measures, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread globally.
Table of contents Introduction

Terms and Classifications 1.1 Terms 1.2 Classifications
Palestinian enterprises in COVID-19: Effects of the restrictions and the enterprises' reactions
2.1 Effects of the COVID-19 restrictions on the enterprises in Palestinian
2.1.1 Lockdown and closure
2.1.2 Demand Shocks
2.1.3 Supply Shocks
2.1.4 Financial Shocks
2.2 Enterprises' reactions to the effects of the COVID-19 restrictions in Palestine
2.2.1 Financial Adjustment Mechanism
2.2.2 Impact on Employment
2.2.3 Use of Digital Solution
2.3 Needed Policies
2.4 Looking Ahead
Methodology
3.1 Questionnaire
3.2 Sample and Frame
3.3 Field Operations 3.4 Data Processing

Quality
4.1 Data Accuracy
4.2 Problems and Obstacles
Tables
Download https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2555.pdf
Other materials
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities
pdf   4.36 MB

Author(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Date 2021-09-13T00:10
Country Palestine
Language Arabic
Contributor(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Publisher(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Description International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities
Table of contents Brief History
2. Key features of the rating
3. Principles, definitions and classification rules
4. Scope Category
5. The differences from the other classifications
The basic principles of classification
Classification structure and coding system independent
The main activities, secondary and additional
Statistical unit
Classification of statistical units
Processing activities mixed
General structure of the classification
The main doors
The detailed structure of the classification
Download ISIC04.pdf
COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey in Palestine – 2020 User’s Guide
pdf   409.68 KB

Author(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Date 2021-09-12T09:10
Country Palestine
Language Arabic
Contributor(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Publisher(s) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Description User's Guide of the Economic Surveys Series - 2016 contains the most important items
Table of contents Concepts and Definition
Survey Questionnaire
Target Population
Sample and Frame
Weighting
Variance Calculation
Reference Date
Data Collecting
Response Rate
Data Quality
Download Text English.pdf

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